I went to the test this afternoon. When I came to the classroom, the teacher asked me what I was doing here. And then I understood that the test would be tomorrow.
Finally I realize that today is not July 1st.
2008年6月30日星期一
2008年6月29日星期日
Good Bye Lenin
It’ll be an epic topic. I watched two films today Good Bye Lenin and The Onion Movie. I like both of them.
Good Bye Lenin used a small family’s changing to talk about the huge changing in Germany during 1900s. The director leads us to the past when Germany was under socialism. The attitude was the oppsite of the other film V for Vendetta.
I’m wondering whether I should over this post. Because it’s too complicated that maybe I cannot express it clearly.
We’re all envious the other side of green grass. I was impressed by both of the two movies and was really moved. Well, I don’t like our government. But if it was changed I don’t know whether it will be better or not. Like the Onion Movie, every media and news can be a joke. I’ll think about this kinda things later.
Well, I might not go traveling next month. What am I going to do after the tests?
Good Bye Lenin used a small family’s changing to talk about the huge changing in Germany during 1900s. The director leads us to the past when Germany was under socialism. The attitude was the oppsite of the other film V for Vendetta.
I’m wondering whether I should over this post. Because it’s too complicated that maybe I cannot express it clearly.
We’re all envious the other side of green grass. I was impressed by both of the two movies and was really moved. Well, I don’t like our government. But if it was changed I don’t know whether it will be better or not. Like the Onion Movie, every media and news can be a joke. I’ll think about this kinda things later.
Well, I might not go traveling next month. What am I going to do after the tests?
2008年6月24日星期二
Cherish a Memory
My uncle and aunt came to my home this Monday because they were going to America from Shanghai to take care of my pregnant cousin. I haven’t seen both of them for two years. But last time when I saw them I was really shocked.
They look much much older than their images in my memory many years ago. When I was in elementary and middle school, I spent three summer holidays at their home for my parents had to work everyday and had no time take care of me. My uncle was really serious since he has two sons but no daughters. I had to do my homework most of time everyday. All of the holidays were not really holidays; they were the darkest days I had ever met. I hated them in a long time for my uncle hadn’t a good relationship with my dad and his treatment to me. He used to be a smart and knowledgeable man so that he cultivated one of his son successfully who went to university at 13-year-old and got PhD at 24-year-old in America. But my uncle becomes cheap when he gets old. Even both of his son have good jobs abroad he is very abstemious and I can’t see it’s necessary. He cares about money too much and is afraid his relatives borrow money or ask favor from his outstanding son so that he doesn’t want to trouble anyone. However the result is the opposite and gives him a bad reputation among my family.
I don’t know how to describe the feeling when I saw his white hair and have to cough all the time because of asthma. It’s complicated. And I need to say my maths is good because of my uncle’s training before. I hope they will be good and healthy in America. They’ll be at San Francisco tomorrow morning.
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The new song “Viva La Vida” of coldplay is really cool. It’s more upbeat and suitable for the ads of iTunes. Dave said Viva La Vida and Fix you were his favorite song of coldplay now. I also love the other songs of this album which called Lovers In Japan/Reign Of Love and Lost. They are tender. I feel a bit sad when I heard that they couldn’t come to Shanghai this year. But, this year is a really tough and odd in China. I knew that the south of China was suffered from flood. And hundreds of people are dead. I should be braver to hear this kind of news.
They look much much older than their images in my memory many years ago. When I was in elementary and middle school, I spent three summer holidays at their home for my parents had to work everyday and had no time take care of me. My uncle was really serious since he has two sons but no daughters. I had to do my homework most of time everyday. All of the holidays were not really holidays; they were the darkest days I had ever met. I hated them in a long time for my uncle hadn’t a good relationship with my dad and his treatment to me. He used to be a smart and knowledgeable man so that he cultivated one of his son successfully who went to university at 13-year-old and got PhD at 24-year-old in America. But my uncle becomes cheap when he gets old. Even both of his son have good jobs abroad he is very abstemious and I can’t see it’s necessary. He cares about money too much and is afraid his relatives borrow money or ask favor from his outstanding son so that he doesn’t want to trouble anyone. However the result is the opposite and gives him a bad reputation among my family.
I don’t know how to describe the feeling when I saw his white hair and have to cough all the time because of asthma. It’s complicated. And I need to say my maths is good because of my uncle’s training before. I hope they will be good and healthy in America. They’ll be at San Francisco tomorrow morning.
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The new song “Viva La Vida” of coldplay is really cool. It’s more upbeat and suitable for the ads of iTunes. Dave said Viva La Vida and Fix you were his favorite song of coldplay now. I also love the other songs of this album which called Lovers In Japan/Reign Of Love and Lost. They are tender. I feel a bit sad when I heard that they couldn’t come to Shanghai this year. But, this year is a really tough and odd in China. I knew that the south of China was suffered from flood. And hundreds of people are dead. I should be braver to hear this kind of news.
2008年6月19日星期四
A Horrible Summer Is Coming
I’ve no idea how to describe today’s weather. Is it sultry? I feel a bit low blood pressure in the morning especially after I came back from the revenue. Then after a tiny nap, I have to come to EF to have a f2f class. It’s hard to walk outside and even breathe. I always hate Shanghai’s weather. In the winter it’s freezing and wet. And summer, the terrible summer can kill me. Maybe because we are near sea, so it’s wet? Dan, if you’re reading my blog, I want to tell you that the next two months will be steaming that you can’t imagine. Bless you.
I bought a small garland today which is an old Shanghai tradition accessory in the summer. I just checked the dictionary the flower is called gardenia. It’s suitable for me today since I wear in white and green. After I bought perfume, I haven’t bought these things for a long time because it’s out-of-date. I talked about fabric market with Dan today. And it reminds me the TV-show I watched last night, tailor-made clothing. I’m happy to see he wears the shirts which he bought in the fabric market. That’s the thing that my parents sometimes did many years ago. They always had a specific tailor and choose the color and the cloth. Nowadays we have no time to do that. I think the process is romantic. A good tailor especially elder tailor is a good designer as well. They chat with you and give you suggestions about the clothing. Finally, it’ll fit you not only the body but also the personality. That is our culture which is almost missing today. Anyway I’m going to the fabric market as well when I have time. Maybe I’ll buy a Chi-pao, a lovely silk Chi-pao.
2008年6月17日星期二
The Plan is Changing
It's raining today, but it doesn't annoy me. There is really great news today. It makes me so ecstatic that I can’t concentrate on anything at work. I hope my manager didn’t notice that.
Since I’m level 14th at EF now, I have more opportunities to have face-to-face class alone. I don’t know it is helpful or not. Once Milly told me that workshop is more important for there are more ideas. But I still like face-to-face class alone. We can talk what we want. Maybe the PPT is important for us to learn new words. However, happy atmosphere and having a unconstraint conversation is more fun. Language is to help us communicate, isn't it? I have to face too many tests and too many works I don’t like. I want to choose the teacher and topic that I prefer at the classes. @^_____^@
Well, Sherry’s friend is working in a travel agency. It means that we can have a low price to a particular destination next month. There is one chance this month as well which is to Phuket Island, Thailand under 3000 yuan. But my life is full of exams now. July is fine, because all the exams are done expect the accounting test which is postponed for earthquake. They haven’t known the destination next month and the price either. I really want to go Thailand. Bless me. I prefer Thailand to Guilin. The photos are the sight of Phuket. It is a paradise, isn't it?
Since I’m level 14th at EF now, I have more opportunities to have face-to-face class alone. I don’t know it is helpful or not. Once Milly told me that workshop is more important for there are more ideas. But I still like face-to-face class alone. We can talk what we want. Maybe the PPT is important for us to learn new words. However, happy atmosphere and having a unconstraint conversation is more fun. Language is to help us communicate, isn't it? I have to face too many tests and too many works I don’t like. I want to choose the teacher and topic that I prefer at the classes. @^_____^@
2008年6月16日星期一
I Need a Trip
Having a whole week's traveling topic classes last week，I cannot help thinking about my travel plan this year.
Well, I went to the Philippines this Feb. But I did nothing in nearly 5 months.
Especially I saw Dan traveled with his parents to Xi’an last week. Dan came from Boston, U.S.A. He has only stayed in Shanghai for six months. However, he has been to several cities of China that I haven’t been to. I’m a really native Chinese. Shame on myself. He did go to Harbin, Guilin, Yangshuo, Qingdao, Xi’an, Suzhou and Hangzhou. And he went to Beijing when he was 7. Furthermore he still has half a year and 6 days for annual leave. Westerns are addicted to travel. I have to say that I'm jealous of Dan. It’s a good way to escape the daily life when your work and study is becoming routine and boring.
So when Sherry pushed me to Guilin and Yangshou yesterday I was content. After I saw the photos which Marshika and Dan took in Guilin, I was ecstatic. I miss the feeling of escaping from Shanghai so much. I won’t trade it for anything.
And now I just have to think of accommodation, transportation, destination (probably Guilin), partner, duration, luggage… Even this makes me excited.
I downloaded an album called Music For Tourists (I think it’s indie folk) which is suitable for me now.
Well, I went to the Philippines this Feb. But I did nothing in nearly 5 months.
Especially I saw Dan traveled with his parents to Xi’an last week. Dan came from Boston, U.S.A. He has only stayed in Shanghai for six months. However, he has been to several cities of China that I haven’t been to. I’m a really native Chinese. Shame on myself. He did go to Harbin, Guilin, Yangshuo, Qingdao, Xi’an, Suzhou and Hangzhou. And he went to Beijing when he was 7. Furthermore he still has half a year and 6 days for annual leave. Westerns are addicted to travel. I have to say that I'm jealous of Dan. It’s a good way to escape the daily life when your work and study is becoming routine and boring.
So when Sherry pushed me to Guilin and Yangshou yesterday I was content. After I saw the photos which Marshika and Dan took in Guilin, I was ecstatic. I miss the feeling of escaping from Shanghai so much. I won’t trade it for anything.
And now I just have to think of accommodation, transportation, destination (probably Guilin), partner, duration, luggage… Even this makes me excited.
I downloaded an album called Music For Tourists (I think it’s indie folk) which is suitable for me now.
2008年6月9日星期一
Finished reading
I finished reading of Harry Potter 7th this morning, 1:45a.m. I can't believe that Snape is a positive person. I know that one of the reason that I can't continue at first is the first half is too slow. And the atmosphere is very depressed. Plus, it's in English. I forgot the specific words that J.K.Rowling made up before I read the next time.
I'm thinking that how to express my feeling of the book. It's still my favorite series. The second half is moving too quickly. Lots of people is dead, especially the twins. I'm appreciating that Harry survived and married. As Snape contributed so much before, he should be described more. In my opinion, the ending is happened too soon and the beginning is tedious. Albus Dumbledore, I like him whenever he did the insensitive thing when he was young. He’s still a knowledgeable, helpful and lovely elder in my mind. My mind is not clear tonight. I want to talk about it next time when I wake up.
I took part in the party which Milly organized this noon. The food is gorgeous. They are vegetable but look like exactly meat and fish. I miss Milly. Hope she’ll adapt herself quickly there.
I'm thinking that how to express my feeling of the book. It's still my favorite series. The second half is moving too quickly. Lots of people is dead, especially the twins. I'm appreciating that Harry survived and married. As Snape contributed so much before, he should be described more. In my opinion, the ending is happened too soon and the beginning is tedious. Albus Dumbledore, I like him whenever he did the insensitive thing when he was young. He’s still a knowledgeable, helpful and lovely elder in my mind. My mind is not clear tonight. I want to talk about it next time when I wake up.
I took part in the party which Milly organized this noon. The food is gorgeous. They are vegetable but look like exactly meat and fish. I miss Milly. Hope she’ll adapt herself quickly there.
2008年6月8日星期日
My goal of the holiday
Maybe it's odd to have a goal during the holiday which is supposed to be a relaxed time. But it seems I'm always busy to do what I want. My plan is to finish the Harry Potter 7. I bought the English version just after it was published because I can't wait for the Chinese version for several months. However, I bought the Chinese one for half year but still haven't finished it. Maybe the reason is I don't want it end. Anyway, I must finish it. I miss Harry.
I watched The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian today. It is a good film, but not as good as Harry Potter. I like most of the characters but Aslan. I asked my friend Sherry who watched it with me, what had Aslan done during the past hundreds years and why did he just come back at the end of the war. The lion is really weird. I like him in the first part as an attractive lion. But now...Hope he won't appear at the third part.
I watched The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian today. It is a good film, but not as good as Harry Potter. I like most of the characters but Aslan. I asked my friend Sherry who watched it with me, what had Aslan done during the past hundreds years and why did he just come back at the end of the war. The lion is really weird. I like him in the first part as an attractive lion. But now...Hope he won't appear at the third part.
2008年6月6日星期五
the Dragon Boat Festival
This is the first post here. I wanted to find an English website to start my English blog writing. To be honest, I'd like to try blogspot. But, well, obviously, it's a bit hard to see my own blog in China. So even I know some ways to see it, it's still not convenient, right? I tried Jimdo, But it didn't send me the email to confirm for a long time. I've no idea about blog.com. But it looks clean and simple. Anyway, I just need another blog and I believe that the contents are more important. Furthermore, it is a good way to practice my English.
The world is so miraculous that blog.com was blocked by ***, and blogspot is fine now. I spent half a day to use blog.com for my first post, and finaly found that it cannot be read. I have nothing to say about the hamonous sociaty.
For this Sunday is the Dragon Boat Festival (Duan Wu), I decided to write about this meaningful festival. I feel confused when the first time I heard the strange English name. Actually, this festival has multi-meaning.
The first thing in my mind is eating Zongzi(glutinous rice wrapped to form a pyramid or rectangle shape using bamboo or reed leaves). Every year Mum and Dad will buy a lot at home. I'll like them at first a few days, but then I'll lose my appetite of it for eating in several weeks' breakfast. My favorite flavor is meat plus egg yolk. It's a specific food for the Dragon Boat Festival; however we can find it anywhere and anytime as a snack. We eat Zongzi for maybe thousands of years to memorize a hero, Qu Yuan. I feel embarrassed that I'm not familiar his story now, but I did use to. I know he leapt a river on the fifth day of the fifth month. We threw rice to the river to feed his ghost every year this time.
Another main activity is the dragon-boat races. It should be fun. But I've never participate it yet. The game will be including the Olympics this year. I'd love to watch it. (I think we're too concertrate on the prize. I bet it's not the Olympics' spirit.) It has the symbolism also related to Qu. We row the dragon boat to attempt to rescue his body. The reason why we use the dragon shape is only dragon can freak out other dragons. There are many dragons in the river or in the imagination of our ancestor's mind. Well, it's not a competition before. They just getherd to raw the boat for fun or see how distance can we row. That seems more like Olympics' spirit.
There is an interesting idiom about the dragon boat painting. There is a famous painter long long ago. He painted a large dragon. When he almost finished, he painted the eyes of the dragon. Because the painting is so vivid that it became alive. And then the dragon flied away. That's why we always draw the eyes in the end. The idiom "hua long dian jing" means the last thing you did make the whole thing perfect.
I watched the Culture Matter which is a TV show of ICS last night. It talked about the Dragon Boat Festival. And it reminds me an old TV series the Whirt Snake Lady. I'm not sure the translating is correct or not, but it literally means that. The story is an classical Chinese fairy tale. It's a romantic and tragic story like Romeo and Juliet. There was a snake long ago. And she can change her image to a beautiful girl(it's hard to translate how she can do that. I just can tell you that it's related to Taoism). One day she met a young scholar in Hangzhou neaer Xi Lake. Of course both of them fell in love with each other. But, it was raining suddenly. The scholar lent his umbrella to the young lady. And she gave it back one year later. Then they got together. It was dramatically that a monk who interfered their happy life. The monk is bad, I think. But he is not considered too bad because he just did what he should do. But still he is an indifferent man. He captured the snake girl and poisoned her under the Leifeng Tower after she just gave birth to her little baby even through the scholar knew the tuth of his wife and accepted that. Then the snake's sister came to rescue her and used magic to make the whole water of Xi Lake cover the Jinshan Temple where the monk lived. Lots of ppl died. I just realize that I forgot the ending of the story. I guess that the scholar became a monk in Jinshan Temple and the snake lady would be under the Leifeng tower for many years.
Then I need to express that why I tell the story. In the Dragon Boat Festival, everyone must drink a little bit orpiment(a kind of herb). Mum will use it to write a character-王 on children's forehead which means king. The herb contained poison. We just use it at that day to clean our skin and get rid of evil. So it'll let the snake girl turn to her original shape. She could not help to reject and you can guess what happened next. She fell to sleep in the bed and turned. Then the scholar saw it and died because of shock. The snake felt sorry and went to the hell and rescued the spirit of the scholar. He was alive. Drinking orpiment is another tradition.
There are several activities in the festival. The dragon boat is one of them. We have the festival in the beginning of summer. And that's the time that many dangerous animals and insects appeared. So it's also something that we do for our health. We can not forget our culture that is so rich, amazing and helpful. This year the dragon boat festival becomes a real holiday. Whatever I'll eat Zongzi tomorrow.
The world is so miraculous that blog.com was blocked by ***, and blogspot is fine now. I spent half a day to use blog.com for my first post, and finaly found that it cannot be read. I have nothing to say about the hamonous sociaty.
For this Sunday is the Dragon Boat Festival (Duan Wu), I decided to write about this meaningful festival. I feel confused when the first time I heard the strange English name. Actually, this festival has multi-meaning.
The first thing in my mind is eating Zongzi(glutinous rice wrapped to form a pyramid or rectangle shape using bamboo or reed leaves). Every year Mum and Dad will buy a lot at home. I'll like them at first a few days, but then I'll lose my appetite of it for eating in several weeks' breakfast. My favorite flavor is meat plus egg yolk. It's a specific food for the Dragon Boat Festival; however we can find it anywhere and anytime as a snack. We eat Zongzi for maybe thousands of years to memorize a hero, Qu Yuan. I feel embarrassed that I'm not familiar his story now, but I did use to. I know he leapt a river on the fifth day of the fifth month. We threw rice to the river to feed his ghost every year this time.
Another main activity is the dragon-boat races. It should be fun. But I've never participate it yet. The game will be including the Olympics this year. I'd love to watch it. (I think we're too concertrate on the prize. I bet it's not the Olympics' spirit.) It has the symbolism also related to Qu. We row the dragon boat to attempt to rescue his body. The reason why we use the dragon shape is only dragon can freak out other dragons. There are many dragons in the river or in the imagination of our ancestor's mind. Well, it's not a competition before. They just getherd to raw the boat for fun or see how distance can we row. That seems more like Olympics' spirit.
There is an interesting idiom about the dragon boat painting. There is a famous painter long long ago. He painted a large dragon. When he almost finished, he painted the eyes of the dragon. Because the painting is so vivid that it became alive. And then the dragon flied away. That's why we always draw the eyes in the end. The idiom "hua long dian jing" means the last thing you did make the whole thing perfect.
I watched the Culture Matter which is a TV show of ICS last night. It talked about the Dragon Boat Festival. And it reminds me an old TV series the Whirt Snake Lady. I'm not sure the translating is correct or not, but it literally means that. The story is an classical Chinese fairy tale. It's a romantic and tragic story like Romeo and Juliet. There was a snake long ago. And she can change her image to a beautiful girl(it's hard to translate how she can do that. I just can tell you that it's related to Taoism). One day she met a young scholar in Hangzhou neaer Xi Lake. Of course both of them fell in love with each other. But, it was raining suddenly. The scholar lent his umbrella to the young lady. And she gave it back one year later. Then they got together. It was dramatically that a monk who interfered their happy life. The monk is bad, I think. But he is not considered too bad because he just did what he should do. But still he is an indifferent man. He captured the snake girl and poisoned her under the Leifeng Tower after she just gave birth to her little baby even through the scholar knew the tuth of his wife and accepted that. Then the snake's sister came to rescue her and used magic to make the whole water of Xi Lake cover the Jinshan Temple where the monk lived. Lots of ppl died. I just realize that I forgot the ending of the story. I guess that the scholar became a monk in Jinshan Temple and the snake lady would be under the Leifeng tower for many years.
Then I need to express that why I tell the story. In the Dragon Boat Festival, everyone must drink a little bit orpiment(a kind of herb). Mum will use it to write a character-王 on children's forehead which means king. The herb contained poison. We just use it at that day to clean our skin and get rid of evil. So it'll let the snake girl turn to her original shape. She could not help to reject and you can guess what happened next. She fell to sleep in the bed and turned. Then the scholar saw it and died because of shock. The snake felt sorry and went to the hell and rescued the spirit of the scholar. He was alive. Drinking orpiment is another tradition.
There are several activities in the festival. The dragon boat is one of them. We have the festival in the beginning of summer. And that's the time that many dangerous animals and insects appeared. So it's also something that we do for our health. We can not forget our culture that is so rich, amazing and helpful. This year the dragon boat festival becomes a real holiday. Whatever I'll eat Zongzi tomorrow.
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